lust

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lust for life

Intense eagerness to experience all that life has to offer. I don't mind growing old, but I sometimes miss that boundless lust for life I had when I was younger.My 80-year-old grandfather has a lust for life that continues to amaze us all!

lust for

1. To have a strong sexual desire for someone. Sarah's been lusting for our waiter all night, so I wrote her number on a napkin and told him to call her when he finishes work.

2. To have an intense craving or obsessive desire for something. for two years of weight training and cardio, I've finally got the muscular body I've been lusting forA good advertising agency doesn't cater to what customers lust for—it decides what that is.

lust after

1. To have a strong sexual desire for someone. Sarah's been lusting after our waiter all night, so I wrote her number on a napkin and told him to call her when he finishes work.

2. To have an intense craving or obsessive desire for something. After two years of weight training and cardio, I've finally got the muscular body I've been lusting afterA good advertising agency doesn't cater to what customers lust after—it decides what that is.

flame with anger

and flame with resentment; flame with lust; flame with vengeance

Fig. [for someone's eyes] to "blaze" or seem to communicate a particular quality or excitement, usually a negative feeling. His eyes flamed with resentment when he heard Sally's good news.Her eyes flamed with hatred.

Knapp and Lusted tap into three types of biosignals, though they say future generations of Biomuses may use more.

He and Lusted have programmed Biomuse to shunt the musical output between different sets of speakers depending on eye position.

The startling thing about Biomuse is that you actually can listen to yourself, to your body, make music, and you can quickly learn to manipulate the sound," Lusted remarks.

Being able to switch the sound from a string sound to a glockenspiel sound by changing from visual to nonvisual thought -- that was really bizarre," says Lusted, who has the most on-line Biomuse experience to date.

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